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In the intro, after trying to reach out and touch a butterfly, Burton quickly discovers that his lifetime of reading has given him dangerous superpowers he can use to destroy everything around him. It's up to Burton to save the kids from achieving this same fate. All he has to do is use his powers to destroy all of the books in the local library to stop the kids from reading those evil power-granting books.

We probably won't see this alternate intro gracing the Reading Rainbow project page anytime soon, but it's still a fun watch nonetheless.